Government Has A Legitimate Sphere Of Operation.

I Believe God Created The World For A Purpose. The Designer Of Intelligent Design Is, Ultimately, The Christian God.

Because Government Has Tremendous Power, It Attracts People Who Are Eager To Game The System, Obtaining By Force Of Law What They Could Never Achieve Through Consensus.

The Problem Of Good As It Faces The Atheist Is This: Nature, Which Is The Nuts-and-bolts Reality For The Atheist, Has No Values And Thus Can Offer No Grounding For Good And Evil. Values On The Atheist View Are Subjective And Contingent.

I'm Not Saying That Atheists Can't Act Morally Or Have Moral Knowledge. But When I Ascribe Virtue To An Atheist, It's As A Theist Who Sees The Atheist As Conforming To Objective Moral Values. The Atheist, By Contrast, Has No Such Basis For Morality. And Yet All Moral Judgments Require A Basis For Morality, Some Standard Of Right And Wrong.

Without A Unified Political Climate Of Opinion, There Is Little Or No Political Profit In Doing The Right Thing.